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    Welcome To Planet Rome: 12 Extraterrestrial Roman Empires

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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    01/29/09

    In reply to Welcome To Planet Rome: 12 Extraterrestrial Roman Empires
    Glad to see "The Aquiliad" listed (although I think you may have spelled the title wrong). That was a fun book.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/29/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: It got sillier and goofier... and were there sequels? Can't remember now.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    01/29/09

    In reply to Welcome To Planet Rome: 12 Extraterrestrial Roman Empires
    The Amarrian Emperor died last year; Empress Jamyl I was crowned in October:
    [myeve.eve-online.com]
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/29/09

    In reply to Welcome To Planet Rome: 12 Extraterrestrial Roman Empires
    I love the outtake from Bread and Circuses. Spock and McCoy are in the Gladiator arena. An actor off screen is supposed to say the line, "If they refuse to fight, kill them." Instead he says, "If they refuse to fight, screw them." Hilarity ensued.
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    Image of John Hazard John Hazard
    01/29/09

    In reply to Welcome To Planet Rome: 12 Extraterrestrial Roman Empires
    Star Trek's Roman planet is "explained" by "Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development". Google it!


    You left out the other obvious Trek Rome, which is ROMULANS. Their name, the toga-like costumes- in the animated series the parallel was taken too literally when Romulan characters where given Roman sounding names, just like the new movie and it's tattooed Romulan pirate villain NERO.

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    Image of EBone EBone
    01/29/09

    @John Hazard: And also explained by the lack of budget for the show and the existence of Roman film sets and wardrobe props on the Desilu Studios lot!
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/29/09

    @John Hazard: I guess I thought the Romulans were basically nothing like the Earth Romans, but humans had named their planet Romulus (in Earth-speak) because it had a twin planet, Remus. Maybe I've read too many Diane Duane Rihannsu novels though.
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    Image of MrTim MrTim
    01/29/09

    In reply to Welcome To Planet Rome: 12 Extraterrestrial Roman Empires
    What, no love for The Tomorrow People? They had a story where a villain takes advanced technology back to the imperial Romans, and when they return to the present, the entire planet has been named Rome and is at the center of a vast interstellar empire.
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    01/29/09

    @MrTim:
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    01/29/09

    In reply to Welcome To Planet Rome: 12 Extraterrestrial Roman Empires
    Charlie, by ignoring Marvin the Martian's Roman centurian outfit you have made him very angry, very angry indeed.


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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    01/29/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid:

    Indeed.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/29/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Earth-shattering Kaboom!
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    01/29/09

    In reply to Welcome To Planet Rome: 12 Extraterrestrial Roman Empires
    I'm not a huge Drake fan, but Ranks of Bronze deserves a mention here.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/29/09

    @Belabras: Thought about it. Almost included it. But it's not a Roman empire in space, is it? If memory serves, it's a legion of Roman soldiers who get kidnapped into space to serve as shock troops for aliens who can't use high technology to attack less advanced worlds.
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